[COMPLETED] When down on her luck, Abby Redding lands a position as the personal assistant for wealthy businessman Alex Carter, her first assignment is to fix up his new cabin in a remote town. Things don't go as planned when an unsolved murder and a haunted cabin leave Abby Redding fighting for her life. Is her handsome boss hiding secrets? Or is there something more sinister afoot?

Rye has lived at the Institute her entire life. Watched over by Sentries and loyal to a man who calls himself Dr. X she has dedicated her entire young life to training to be the perfect spy. Cunning, clever and lethal as an Experiment to Dr. X, she (along with other girls at the Institute) are sought to rebuild the New World after coming close to another World War breakout. Safe behind the Institute's walls, Rye trains till no end so she can fulfill her duty and become a lone agent. But when an intruder has been captured and she is sent to find our who this person is and how they found the remote building, she discovers darker secrets to what the Institute is hiding, and the where her loyalties lie is finally questioned...

ORIGINAL DRAFT. SEE UPDATED NOVEL FOR REWRITE VERSION RELEASED 9/2025. Wattpad Featured Author | 800K+ Reads | AMC TWD Partnered Story | Ranking #1 in Adventure | Wattpad Beta book for text-to-speech accessibility A Dystopian Society 4522. Both a name and a number that had labeled many. Within a society of the alive, yet not living, 4522 struggles to conform. She finds herself lost while surrounded by strict rules of direction. Deep inside, she knows there is another way to exist than following orders in a herd of humans who do not think for themselves. 4522 believes there is more to life than numbers and laws; she just has to find it. When her hall Officer is replaced, and she forms an unlikely friendship with the boy next to her, the opportunity for change arises. When the mysterious Officer selects her and her friend, 4313, for testing she knows something is wrong; 4522 can only think she was picked because they know about her secrets that she had been keeping. They know she is different and different only meant one thing. Death. Pronounced: Four-Five-Two-Two